Our 3 Top Tips for Increasing the Reach of your Digital Archive
Many institutions have made the leap to digitising their archives and presenting these online. Not so many understand what should come next.
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Guide: Sources of Funding for heritage digitisation projects
We’ve put together a list of potential funding sources for UK-based digitisation initiatives, to help you secure funding for your next project.
3 Top Tips: How to market and promote your Business Archive
Every organisation has a different reason for promoting its archive. Here are my top 3 tips when thinking about your marketing activities.
Introduction to using Instagram to promote archive collections
If you have yet to discover how Instagram can help to promote your archive,…
How to Digitise… Large format Maps, Plans and much more
When digitising oversize archival items – such as maps, architectural plans, posters, registers and…
Getting stakeholder Buy-in for your digitisation project
Archive digitisation projects can require a lot of resources – staff/volunteers, equipment, time, and…
Developing a successful HLF funding bid for your archive project: Essential tips
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funds a vast array of projects. I’m exceedingly lucky…
Digitisation Project Planning Tool (FREE download)
When approaching external suppliers to partner with on a digitisation project, or preparing an…
Outreach for Archives – Best Practice Tips
Outreach is a vital component of any archive or library service’s strategy, and this…
Digitising Newspaper Collections – Best Practice tips
Digitising historical newspaper archives is an excellent of way of making them more accessible…